Evidently the joints on the flaps still need a little work into not letting gases through, but it seemed to still have enough actuation to keep the spacecraft stable until the engines took over for the landing burn.

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    It is estimated that currently each starship launch is cost around $90 million, and should be around $10 million once the program is more mature.

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    For comparison each SLS launch is estimated to be around $4.1 billions. This cost not include development.

    So a Starship launch is around 40 to 400 time cheaper than the SLS for similar capacity in LEO.

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      The Apollo compairaon above is even more ridiculous when you consider that starship made it to orbit and could’ve deployed a payload. The part that ‘failed’ was the soft landing and even that didn’t fail. Only reuse failed.

      Every Saturn v that was launched is currently sitting at the bottom of the ocean.

      Taking shots at starship for failing even though Saturn v didn’t even attempt the same mission parameters makes no sense.

      Starship will have likely had 100+ missions before putting a human on it. Would you rather fly on something that’s proven itself 100 times or something that is flying for the first time?